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Well at Movie world on the Gold Coast they have Shrek 4D... Its in 3D and Shrek sneezes and you get sprayed in his snot and the chairs move... mmmm I wouldn't want to watch porn with the same tech lol....

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Now, for the insanely awesome thing I saw while I was in Japan 3 days ago on a subway!! PANASONIC 3D CAMCORDER! This is going to bring new light to everything we do, think of the car videos we're gonna have now, and not to mention, think of the new era of porn... this is gonna be awesome! Ok, I couldn't find the camera for sale, but didn't look too much b/c I'm more than broke spending a month in asia. But the model is Panasonic 3D TM750, even though I don't own one, and I doubt I can get one soon, it is exciting to me to see stuff like that.

There are already a few 3D cameras available that shoot 3D video as well (albeit not in high-res). Fuji has one. It's been available for some time. The industry is beginning to try 3D HD though and THAT will be incredible. For those of you who HAVEN'T seen the currently available 3D, check out your local Best Buy and go watch the Panasonic Viera 3D demo. It's an eye opener. Yes, you need to wear glasses, but check it out for yourself before you knock it. The only thing to warn you about is that the demo may cause you to feel an urge to buy a 3D system right there and then.

BTW, if you go to AVSforums, you'll see examples of a guy who's used to regular camcorders to produce 3D home video. It's pretty cool. In fact, if you go to youtube, there are more than a few examples of 3D home video although you're going to need the ability to focus your eyes using either the cross eyed or parallel viewing methods to see the 3D effect. Having been a fan of 3D photography and video for quite a long time now, I've taught myself to be able to focus for parallel viewing in just a couple of seconds.

If you have access to anaglyph glasses (the old school red-blue glasses) I found THIS little vid to be really cool:


Most 3D material creates 'through the window' depth, i.e. you have depth perception, but it's like viewing things through a window with your display being the window. You have depth perception but the closest thing to you is your window/display. The video on the other hand is the 'out the window' type where the object appears to pop out past the plane of your display. Of course, it uses the old school anaglyph tech which kind of sucks as there are inherent color issues, but the shutter glasses are a whole different animal.

With the advent of high def 3D camcorders, I'm guessing the porn industry is going to be up to some new tricks.

As with the thread on the other forum, I'm going to have to say that 3D is NOT a fad and it isn't going to die out. It may stagnate for a while due to the stupid lack of content and 'exclusive release' content wars going on, (eg. Panasonic has bought the rights for the initial release of Avatar in 3D to be released as a starter pack bundle exclusively to folks buying THEIR new 3D displays, Samsung has bought the initial release rights for a couple of other 3D movies to bundle exclusively with THEIR 3D displays etc.).

I understand these companies are trying to fight for market share but they don't seem to realize that it's making folks even more hesitant to be early adopters due to lack of available content AND who wants to risk buying a 3D display NOW and then find out, "Oh you already bought your 3DTV so you don't qualify to receive the bonus promo pack with the XXX 3D movies as those are being bundled with NEW purchases of the 3DTV's".

That said though, as I mentioned before, 3D is the next logical step in the immersive experience. While there are old movies that used 3D in the old-fashioned 'jump out of the screen at you to shock the audience' tricks, Avatar 3D for instance is one of the first 3D movies that added 3D simply to increase immersion in it's environment to really make you feel like you were actually there IN the scene. I didn't see Toy Story 3 3D so I don't know how well they handled that but I can imagine how much more amazing and immersive it 'could' be if they take you down to the perspective of something the size of a toy where even a bed looms large WITH the depth perception of stereoscopic 3D.

Imagine seeing 'Honey I Shrunk The Kids' with true depth perception, where a blade of grass looks the size of a tree and a half eaten Oreo is about the size of a house.

I've heard that they intend t rerelease Toy Story 1&2 in 3D and these are some of the only potential titles where they could potentially do this right because the movies are computer animation and already have the Z-vector built-in.

To me though, the next step I'm waiting for will be 3D goggles. Ever since the days of the video game Dactyl Nightmare, I've dreamed about high definition stereoscopic 3D using goggles and 2 separate high definition displays/screens, one for each eye to provide the stereoscopic image. Using 2-2.5" displays, it's potentially possible to create a field of view akin to sitting 10 feet away from a 150+" wide screen. And with Dactyl Nightmare, I could actually choose to look wherever I wanted (although I don't really see how they could implement that feature in anything other than computer animation).


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